Example sentences of "they [verb] nowhere [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they find nowhere to live , nothing to eat and poor health and education . |
| 2 | They 've nowhere to sleep you see , having left home and so on . |
| 3 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
| 4 | ‘ They said they had nowhere to go , so mum took them in . ’ |
| 5 | Even if he shot away the locks and released the captive kids now , they had nowhere to go . |
| 6 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 7 | The fish have eaten their bodies ; they have nowhere to go for burial . |
| 8 | When the people who buy and sell shares in the City lose their jobs , they have nowhere to go , either , because they have no skills . |
| 9 | ‘ Children who have to steal to eat ; who have been abandoned by their parents , if they ever knew them ; children who huddle in a doorway at night , because they have nowhere to sleep . ’ |
| 10 | A group of new-age travellers whose camp site was raided by police yesterday say they have nowhere to move on to . |
| 11 | Since 1988 the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 12 | Since 1988 , the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 13 | Parents ' Friend are here for parents , relations and close friends of gay , lesbian and bisexual people and also for those people themselves if they have nowhere to turn — or know of nowhere . |
| 14 | However , because island animals have evolved in the absence of predators , because their populations are often fairly small to begin with , and because they have nowhere to run to , they tend to be extremely vulnerable when predators are finally introduced and island creatures are particularly prone to extinction . |